0525 好还是最好？
你向左，我就向右；你向右，我就向左。《创世记13:9》
一旦你开始过信神的生活，令人着迷且欣慰的可能性就会展开在你面前。这些东西本是你的权利，但如果你是过着信心的生活，你就会行使你的权利去放弃自己的权利，而让神为你做选择。神有时会让你进入一个考验的境地，如果你不是过信心的生活，考虑你自己的福祉将是适当的。但如果你是，你会高兴地放弃你的权利，让神为你做选择。这是神使用的纪律操练，借着顺从祂的声音，将人天然的本质转化为属灵的。
每当我们的权利成为我们生活的指导因素时，它就会使我们灵性洞察力变得迟钝。信神的生活中最大的敌人不是罪，而是好的选择永远不够好；好，总是最好的敌人。在这段经文中，对亚伯兰言，似乎世界上最明智之事就是去选择，那是他的权利；如果他不选择，周围的人就会认为他是傻瓜。
我们许多人并未继续在灵性上成长，因为我们更喜欢根据我们的权利做选择，而非依靠神为我们做选择。我们必须学习按照专注于神的标准而行事为人。神对我们说，如同祂对亚伯兰说的那样：「当在我面前行…」（创世记 17:1）。
来自章伯斯的智慧
无论上帝的旨意将我们扔到哪里，无论是贫民窟、商店还是沙漠，我们都必须沿着祂的指示努力工作。永远不可有「我在这里毫无用处」的想法，因为如果你不在所在之地，你当然是毫无用处！无论祂在哪里发动了你的环境，就是祷告。 《故我差遣你》
0525 The Good or The Best?
If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left. —Genesis 13:9
As soon as you begin to live the life of faith in God, fascinating and physically gratifying possibilities will open up before you. These things are yours by right, but if you are living the life of faith you will exercise your right to waive your rights, and let God make your choice for you. God sometimes allows you to get into a place of testing where your own welfare would be the appropriate thing to consider, if you were not living the life of faith. But if you are, you will joyfully waive your right and allow God to make your choice for you. This is the discipline God uses to transform the natural into the spiritual through obedience to His voice.
Whenever our right becomes the guiding factor of our lives, it dulls our spiritual insight. The greatest enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but good choices which are not quite good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best. In this passage, it would seem that the wisest thing in the world for Abram to do would be to choose. It was his right, and the people around him would consider him to be a fool for not choosing.
Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us. We have to learn to walk according to the standard which has its eyes focused on God. And God says to us, as He did to Abram, “…walk before Me…” (Genesis 17:1).
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Wherever the providence of God may dump us down, in a slum, in a shop, in the desert, we have to labour along the line of His direction. Never allow this thought—“I am of no use where I am,” because you certainly can be of no use where you are not! Wherever He has engineered your circumstances, pray. –So Send I You, 1325 L